The Rice Cake in Mukbang, Cookat Market Chapssaltteok

Published 03 Nov.2022 17:00(KST)

Updated 03 Nov.2022 17:00(KST)

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The Rice Cake in Mukbang, Cookat Market Chapssaltteok

I used to enjoy watching mukbang YouTube channels. Watching the food placed in front of the camera disappear one by one gave me a sense of satisfaction, even though I wasn’t the one eating. Among the various menus, my favorite was chapssaltteok (glutinous rice cake). At that time, I only knew chapssaltteok filled with red bean paste, so the strawberry, chocolate, and green tea chapssaltteok they ate felt like a whole new world. That chapssaltteok that often appeared in mukbang videos, the one I always wondered if it really tasted that good! I finally tried the four types of Cookat chapssaltteok.

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There were various flavors like peach, tiramisu, and mango, but I bought only four. The basic milk chapssaltteok, the strawberry ssok milk chapssaltteok often seen in videos, the chocolate ssok green tea chapssaltteok, and personally, since I like sweet potato flavor, the sweet potato chapssaltteok.

The milk and sweet potato flavors come in boxes of 12 pieces, while the strawberry and chocolate green tea flavors come in boxes of 9 pieces. All are individually wrapped, which is convenient for meals or snacks, though it does produce a lot of plastic waste. The wrapping prevents the rice cakes from sticking together during storage, and it’s easy to thaw only as much as you want to eat.

I first tried the milk and sweet potato flavors. Both chapssaltteok were filled only with cream, without any other ingredients. The milk chapssaltteok had a strong condensed milk flavor. Since it’s called ‘milk’ chapssaltteok, I expected a mild and nutty milk taste, but the sweet condensed milk flavor was much stronger. If you thaw it until the rice cake becomes soft, it can get greasy and cloying, so I recommend thawing just enough until the filling has an ice cream-like texture.

Next, the appetizingly colored sweet potato chapssaltteok. It was generously dusted with purple sweet potato powder, enough to require a plate, which prevented the rice cake from sticking to the packaging even after it was fully thawed. The purple sweet potato powder had a slightly bitter taste, while the yellow rice cake and cream parts had a sweet roasted sweet potato flavor. It had an artificial sweetness reminiscent of sweet potato ice cream, but it wasn’t overly sweet or greasy.

The product most often seen in mukbangs and Cookat Market’s signature item, the strawberry ssok milk chapssaltteok. I cut it in half with high expectations, but unlike in the videos, it wasn’t filled with a lot of strawberry puree. However, there were small pieces of strawberry pulp, giving it a sufficiently sweet taste. The soft milk cream like fresh cream, the sweet strawberry, and the chewy rice cake wrapping it all up ? it tastes exactly as imagined. It’s perfect to eat like ice cream after spicy food.

I was surprised when I cut open the chocolate ssok green tea chapssaltteok. There was plenty of chocolate inside the pale green tea cream. The cream was much lighter and sweeter than Baskin Robbins’ Chocolate Forest flavor. Highly recommended if you like a light green tea taste. If you prefer a bitter and strong green tea flavor, I’d boldly pass on this. The chocolate tasted like frozen thick chocolate syrup. Green tea desserts with chocolate are supposed to let you enjoy the bittersweetness of green tea and the pleasant sweetness of chocolate simultaneously, but this was just sweet, which was very disappointing. Surprisingly, among the four flavors I tried that day, this one thawed the fastest. If you thaw it for too long, the rice cake sticks to the plastic and the chocolate melts and drips, so be careful.